State Secretary of Transportation Frank Busalacchi apologized this week to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for a Wisconsin Department of Transportation highway project 50 years ago that disturbed tribal graves, according to the JS.

Busalacchi also said the transportation department has been working with tribal historic preservation officials for nearly five years to establish a policy that protects cultural heritage. He hopes to institute the transportation policy by the end of the year.

Here’s hoping that policy applies to veterans’ graves as well. Busalacchi has embraced plans to expand east-west I-94 in Milwaukee by adding freeway lanes either through or directly above the graves in historic Wood National Cemetery.

Guess it’s OK for the government to (quite literally) run over you if you have served honorably in the military.